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2526. Remembering The Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... that we do when we're cramming for an exam, and we try to make dates and times and equations stick in our heads long enough to regurgitate them for the professor, or the kind of remembering we do when our husband or wife says, "Honey, don't forget to stop for milk on your way home." I'm speaking of remembering in a much deeper sense. A Methodist pastor had lunch with an Episcopal priest with whom he had gone to college 25 years earlier, and whom he hadn't seen or kept in touch with all those years. They ...

2527. A Patriot · Dysmas

Mt 27:38 · Mk 15:27 · Lk 23:32

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... the first three gospels he is a nameless person, this young patriot sharing the agony of Jesus' last earthly hours. (Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27; Luke 23:32) Tradition treats him more kindly. It dignifies him with a name. "Dysmas," it whispers. Nor does tradition stop there. Instead, it presses on to portray Dysmas as a man of great compassion, deeply concerned for the distressed and the downtrodden, who "despised the rich, but did not give to the poor, even burying them" -- no common mercy for the times. I A ...

2528. A Family Member · Salome

Mt 20:20-21 · Mk 15:40; 16:1-2

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... , and "many others." (Luke 8:1-3) It was an ambitious undertaking; for, in all likelihood, 30 to 40 persons comprised his retinue -- no small body considering the fact their journeying would take several months inasmuch as they were traveling afoot, stopping to preach from time to time, and living off the land. That they experienced no major problem along the way seems evident from the fact the scriptures mention none, suggesting careful advance planning in which Salome undoubtedly played no small part ...

2529. The Return Of The Lost

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

... matter how hard that is to do. Wherever there is conflict between individuals, wherever there is pain and suffering, we need to put our differences aside and be united in our common purpose: to help build the kingdom of God on earth. Yes, it is time for us to stop being detached and aloof and avoiding one another. It is time to join hands in Jesus Christ to build a better world. Because this is the only way for those who have been lost to experience the joy of being found. May God bless you all as you seek ...

2530. The Condition Of Mercy

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

... kind of forgiveness? The answer is, that none of us could ever do it without faith in God. Even with much smaller offenses, we cannot really and truly forgive without God's help. One of the fundamental principles of Alcoholics Anonymous is that a person cannot stop drinking on one's own. The first step for the problem drinker is to acknowledge that he or she is out of control. Secondly, the person must seek spiritual help; one must petition the "higher power." With the help of God and participation in a ...

2531. Surprised By Joy

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

... of time. There is a story about a prisoner in Sydney, Australia, who engineered a daring escape by climbing underneath the hood of a van delivering bread to a prison where he was serving his term. However, the escape was foiled when at the van's next stop, he climbed out hot and dirty, only to find himself in the yard of another prison, just four miles away from the one from which he had just escaped! How often we seek escape from our unhappiness and boredom by moving from one situation to another, or ...

2532. Wedding Sermon - You Are What You Wear

SOS 8:6-7; Col 3:12-17

Sermon

Erskine White

... and understands your deepest needs. Take time with each other, and do not think that avoiding certain topics is the way to keep peace in a marriage. This is a mistake too many couples make. They find they cannot talk about the children without arguing, so they stop talking about the children. They find they cannot talk about money or sex or relations with the in-laws without arguing, so they agree not to talk about money or sex or relations with the in-laws. They keep adding difficult topics to the list of ...

2533. Business Leader

Romans 8:28-39

Eulogy

Mark P. Zacher

... London. That night, all of England was heartbroken to receive the news that their general, Arthur Wellesly Wellington, and his forces had been defeated by the French emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte -- for it now seemed as if there would be no way in which to stop the expansion of Napoleon's power. That next morning, again the British agents on the coast searched the skies for more smoke signals from Waterloo and again they received a message. It began with the same word: "Wellington." The next word was also the ...

2534. Playing In The Streets

Zechariah 8:1-23

Eulogy

James W. Weis

... of boys and girls playing in the streets." People were bringing little children to [Jesus] in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it." And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed ...

2535. What Shall We Say To This?

Romans 6:1-14

Eulogy

Bob Kaul

... of a loved one, especially by suicide? What's on your mind this afternoon as you think about that question: who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Go ahead. Add them to the list. And then hear Paul's answer. No. Shall any of these things stop God from loving us? No. No. he says. In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. And then he adds to the list himself. "For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things ...

2536. Death And Birth

Psalm 23:1-6

Eulogy

Henry G. Brinton

... Two things you can never predict with precision are birth and death. It was a bitter cold January night when a young woman went into labor with her first child. She grabbed her minister husband, said, "It's time," and he replied, "Okay, but first we need to stop by the funeral home." He had a funeral service scheduled for 11:00 the next morning, and he knew they'd never be finished with the delivery in time. The minister's wife was not amused. But she got him back by complaining that the car was too ...

2537. Let The Children Come To Me

Psalm 42:1-11

Eulogy

Mary Venema Swierenga

... he -- and none of us -- could live on earth. In the gospel of Matthew we have the episode where the disciples would have kept the children away from Jesus, lest they bother him. Jesus disagreed with them. "Let the children come to me," he said. "Do not try to stop them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." And he laid his hands on them and blessed them. The hope of coming to be with God, blessed by Jesus, is held forth for all who are children -- the children of God. For us children of God ...

2538. Christians Aren't Perfect; They Are Forgiven

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

... forgiveness. Forgiveness is the act of reaching out to another who has done wrong to us to reestablish a broken relationship. I think the important part of this understanding of forgiveness is the part about the restoration of a broken relationship. Because when you stop to think about our broken relationships, it is very seldom that there is a totally guilty party and a totally innocent party. Very seldom is there one who needs to forgive and one who needs to be forgiven. It is a lot more clumsy, complex ...

2539. Which Ones Were Lost?

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

Merle G. Franke

... to be just that Ä a sanctuary from the busy and commercial world about them. Would that the busy men and women who were not hippies would have taken a few moments each day or each week to step into the sanctuary for that same reason! I often stopped to chat with them and eventually got to know several of them by name. But you see, the hippies weren't like the rest of us. They dressed in weird, non-conventional ways, they lived in groups in ramshackle rental houses. And some people thought they needed ...

2540. Lent 3

John 2:12-25

Drama

Craig M. Sweet

... cords, Jesus drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. Jesus then told those who were selling the doves, Reader 2: "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!" Reader 1: At this point the disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." The Jews then said to him, People: "What sign can you show us for doing this?" Reader 2: "Destroy this ...

2541. Easter Sunday

Luke 24:33-41 · Psalm 23 · Acts 4:33-36

Bulletin Aid

Jack Brownlee

... and safe to be a land holder. His father had owned a business on Cyprus, not much really, but it had fallen into debt, had all assets liquidated and now the family simply worked in the shop and drew a small pension in addition to wages. But the pension stopped when his father died. Being an only child, and his mother having died while he was quite young, Joseph had no ties to Cyprus. He worked hard and had a bit more success than his father, but Joseph was discouraged by his lack of progress as well as his ...

2542. Lent 5

Luke 21:1-4 · Psalm 36:5-9

Bulletin Aid

Jack Brownlee

... she so gently placed the flowers to bundle. God had indeed been good to her, she thought. It had only taken five hours to pick and sell the 15 carefully bundled bouquets: "A ha'penny each or three bunches for a penny." As she went back to her home she stopped at the market to buy some rice and bread (it would go well with the meat); she gave a half cent to a beggar with one leg (poor thing); a package of lamp wicks for Malcolm (she had to make sure that they were the new kind, the Roman kind ...

2543. Creative Preaching

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... leave for a few minutes." He motioned to a member of the congregation and said, "You know some good Christmas stories. Tell one until I get back." The speaker came forward and began telling Van Dyke's story, written a century ago. One of the wise men, Artaban, stopped to aid a dying man in the desert and thus missed the rendezvous with the others. To equip himself for the trip across the desert alone, he spent a sapphire, one of the gifts he had brought for the new-born king. The speaker paused for a moment ...

2544. Delivery

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... up when you make a point, and people will listen because they sense the increased energy and intensity. Every now and then a preacher gets a sentence garbled up and stumbles around trying to get back on track. Or one simply gets lost. One usually has to stop, get one's bearings and have another run at it. Such a break can be extremely embarrassing for a speaker, but it probably helps the sermon more than harms it, because as soon as the preacher starts to stumble, even those who are counting bricks on the ...

2545. Judgment Day

Luke 3:1-20

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... milk tank behind the shed in the back yard. The tank was swimming full of carp, redhorse and suckers. He filled his pail with water and fish and carried it through the town and down to the lake. Before the sun came up he had made over a dozen trips, stopping only to watch as the fish made their way through the shallows to the deep. The next day he was back at the lake with his cane pole, fishing in his usual spot. Author's Note: Alternate Text, Matthew 13:24-30, The Parable Of The Weeds.

2546. The Lost Dog

Luke 15:1-32

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... neighbors were certain that the old man had lost his mind. And then one night, as the old man was calling his name, the little spotted dog came home. The old man never knew where he had been or what caused him to stay away so long, but he never stopped calling his name.

2547. Jerry's Faith

Luke 7:1-10

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... promises in my Bible and then I went to the hospital. As I entered the waiting room, I saw that many of my relatives were there to pay their last visit to Grandma. The pastor of her church was about to get on the elevator after praying with her. I stopped him for a brief talk. I said, "Don't you believe God has the ability to heal people?" He assured me he believed that God does have the power to heal, but he added that we all have a time to die. I knew he was right, but a voice ...

2548. A Larger Design For Living

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Clement E. Lewis

... Colorado, he wrote an article that appeared in the May, 1973 issue of Circuit Rider, titled, "Keeping the Right Perspective." In it he said, "Each one of us needs to search his own conscience and realize there is a larger design for living. Then we can stop making excuses and be one with God's purposes." That phrase triggered the title for this message. People sometimes have a limited view of life, which is often self-imposed. There are those who hesitate to be concerned about it because they prefer not to ...

2549. What Did You Say?

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon Aid

Clement E. Lewis

... 's home. She came in as we were doing so, and said, "Boys, if you break the pillow seams and the feathers come out of the casing, you will be responsible for picking up every one of them, and putting them back into the pillow." The fun war stopped instantly. We knew we were accountable to our grandmother. Words said in anger, carelessly, or harmfully are much like the feathers in a pillow. If they escape, they are hard to reclaim. It is much better to be very careful what we say, and how we react to ...

2550. With Christ As Partner

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Clement E. Lewis

... occasion he saw great potential in Peter, and called him "the Rock." It seems natural that he would use Peter's boat to separate himself enough from the press of the people to do some meaningful teaching for all to hear. His discourse did not stop the fishermen from washing and stretching their nets, or from hearing what he was saying. Evidently Jesus' message lasted until Peter brought his nets back to the boat. Jesus remained in the boat, and suggested that a try be made for a catch. Peter was surprised ...

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